Rail joint



April 6 1926.

RAIL JOINT Filed July 17 1925 i atented Apr. 6, 1926.

UNITED STATES,

GEORGE GODULA, or WYOMING, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL JOINT.

Applicationfiled July 17, 1925. Serial No. 44,268.

T0 all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonsn GODULA, a citizen of Poland, and resident of\Vyoming, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Raildoints, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail-joints and it is theprincipal object of the invention to provide a rail joint, whichpositively and effectively prevents a creeping of the rails, and whichallows a ready exchange of worn out rails.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a rail joint whichis of strong and durable construction and has a linnted number of partsand doing away with many of the bolts and nuts used heretofore.

A further-object of the invention is the provision of a rail jointadapted to be applied to any of the rails now in use without materialchange in their construction.

These and other objects and advantages of my improved rail joint willbecome more fully known as the description thereof pro ceeds, and willthen be specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation of my rail joint, the sectionbeing taken on line 11 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the rail joint.

Figure 3 is a top plan view thereof.

As illustrated on the drawing, a pair of adjoining rails 10 and 11, eachhaving a web 12 and a foot flange 13, rest with the latter upon acentral shoulder 14:, formed on a base plate 15 having chair engagmgshoulders 16 and 17 respectively of a pcculiar construction to be morefully described hereafter, formed therewith.

The rail. chair proper consists of two homogeneous oppositely disposedparts 18 and 19, each having a web engaging inner side face 20,and anupper shoulder 21 adapted to engage under the head of the rail, and alower bottom face 22 adapted to engage a depression formed in the baseplatebetween each shoulder 16 and shoulder 17 and the central rib orshoulder 14;; Between the body of the chair arts 18, 19, and the bottomfac'es22 thereo a groove is formed extending longitudinally to the railsand adapted to receive thefoot flanges of the rails. p v

The webs of the adjoining rail ends are formed with suitable openingsallowing the passage of connecting pins 23 the ends of which areembedded in suitable elliptical openings 23 of the inner faces of theweb engaging faces of the chair parts 18, 19.

\Vithin the groove extending longitudinally to the rails and adaptedtoreceive the foot flanges of the ra,ils,iblocks 2e are pro vided whichengage suitable recesses 25 in the side edges of the rail foot flangesof two adjoining rails. I v i The outer side edges of the base plate 15.are provided with a plurality of recesses 26 allowing the passage of thespikes for securing the chair on the ties. Suitable openings 27 areprovided in the upper edges of the shoulders 16 and 17 to receive theshanks of spikes 28 for preventing "a longitudinal displacement of thechairs against the base plate during the operation of trains over therails.

The operation of my device will be entirely clear from the abovedescription without further explanation, the rails areplaced menttherewith so that the blocks 24 engage in the recesses of the rail footflanges, and the pins 23 are passed through the webs of theadjoiningrails to engage the openings in the inner faces of theoppositely disposed chair parts, then when the spikes are driven throughthe recesses 26 of the base parts, and through the openings 27, thejoint willbe formed and constitute an integral structure secure againstseparation of the parts and displacement under traiiic conditions. i V

It is to be understood that I have illustrated and described thepreferred form of my deviceeas an example, and that such changes may bemade in the general 3-1.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I 1. A railjoint comprising a base plate, a central rib or shoulder on said plate,adapted to bear the foot flanges of two adjoining rails, chair engagingshoulders formed near the outer ends of said base plate, a pair of railchair parts adapted to engage said shoulders, a longitudinally extendinggroove in each of said chair parts, lugs in said grooves adapted toengage recesses the rail foot flange, means on one of said rail chairparts engaging the rail web adapted to pass through said Web intoengagement with the other rail chair part, and means for securing saidbase plate to a tie and for preventing displacement of the chair parts.

2. A rail joint having a base plate With a plurality of marginalrecesses allowing the passage of the spikes for fastening said plate tothe rail ties, acent-ral longitudinally extending shoulder formed withsaid base plate, upstanding lateral shoulders formed withsai'dbase-plate, a bi-pa tite rail chair engaging said shoulders and grippingwith its upper ends under the heads of two adjoining rails, said chairparts having longitudinally extending lower grooves," a plue ralityo1lugs formed in said grooves adapted to engage recesses in the rail footflanges,

pins in one or" the Web engaging faces of the rail chair parts adaptedto be passed through the rail Webs into engagement with the other partof said rail chair, and pins adapted to be passed through ellipticalholes formed in the shouldered parts of the chair parts to prevent alongitudinal displacement of the parts under train operation. 3. In arail joint of the class described,the combination of a base plate havinga plurality of recesses in its outer side-edges for the passage offastening spikes, with a bi partite rail chair adapted to engageshoulders formed with said base-plate and resting in recesses of saidbase plate, means for con necting said chair parts to each other on bothsides of a rail Web and to the latter, means for engaging said chairparts with the rail foot flanges, and means for preventing a relativelongitudinal displacement of chair parts and rails.

Signed at Wyoming in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania,this 3rd day of July, A. D. 1925.

GEORGE GODULA,

